Abandoned 1 Owner 32K Turbo Buick Grand National! Will It Run And Drive Again? 

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Thanks. Yes I’m very familiar with these cars. Been around them since new. Prefer the V8 Buicks but these are ok too, they are Buicks after all. Sold all my V8 cars and stuck my turbo car in corner when I wanted to keep my ‘72 GS and sell my turbo car back turn of the Millennium. Yes the hardtops where fastened down a little too tight too at the factory. I’ve seen t tops launch out of turbo cars, and usually the right side door starts separating from the striker bolt area. Thank you for watching. Will have more Buick V8 and V6 videos to come.

@@buickdude69 I prefer the muscle car era as well but there was something special about the GN.. you know what I mean you have one.. or two now 😁 I grew up around the old cars.. dad had a 69 GTO, lemans, Impala, Corvette.. my brother had a 69 Z28 a mustang.. I got my license in the late 80's and originally wanted a GTA but the grand national was the one to get.. I bought an 86 with a blown head gasket and turbo and rebuilt the motor.. should have kept her but I had to let her go as I lost my license shortly after I got on the road 😬 too much car for a kid but I sure did have fun in that thing. used to lay down rubber like no other car..used to measure it from telephone pole to pole! used to break the tires loose at 55 if you caught that top part of 2nd gear 🌝 man I miss that car.. Thanks for sharing your journey with this one.. and I'm sorry about your buddy.. I know how difficult it is to lose a real friend so my heart goes out to you.. At least you got the chance to save that car.. wish you could do the same with people but some people can't be fixed.. ya gotta let em go unfortunately.. but, good luck to you.. show us the progress as you go through that beauty! 👍 Thanks so much for the videos! brings me back 🙏

@@buickdude69 oh hey, if you hit a snag look up Stage 1 Automotive.. they're in NJ.. the owner, Rob is probably the best guy on the planet when it comes to anything Buick, but those GN's he knows every nut and bolt on that car.. they also do specialty work he's a whiz on porting and polishing, and basically everything else mechanical 😁 take care

Thank you for watching, and for your offer to help clean it up if you were closer in a previous video 👍😎

@@buickdude69 yes sir

Ken Moser, Turbo link, way old school, mine went south when my 286 laptop died. When you do get one, I recommend bob baileys scan master G, it’s a 2 inch gauge and does blue tooth to a device. Same recording capability of turbo 40:01 link.

@@DB-rg2dk yes, Moser, Ken Moser. That’s the guy 👍. I’ve been around Buicks a long time! Wish I could remember what I’ve forgotten about em. 😊

This was my best friends car who bought it brand new and abandoned it in his backyard over a divorce. I inherited it after he passed. I did do the work on the car you asked about. The Dash/ instrument cluster was sent to Dennis Kirban who had someone, possibly John Spina/Casper’s who recalibrated the speedo and then put a tape like overlay over the 85 MPH speedo. The gauges are auto meter . I got the console and pillar gauge holders/pods from Kirban as well. This was in 1998. Thank you for watching.

Thank you for watching. Back in the day I jumped on the GN but wished I’d got a T-Type. Another friend bought a GN, took it to the body shop and had it repainted with just a couple 100 miles on it, cause like me he hated black too. That’s one thing I love about the old V8 Buicks back in the day, they came in multiple colors. Even the GSX was available in Yellow for ‘70. Most likely I’ll keep it the original “Buick” color.

Cool, yeah that’d be nice. Have to warn ya though, I’m a Buick guy not a GN guy or should I say not a Chevy guy that likes GNs. I got stuck with my GN over 20 years ago when i was down to only 2 Buicks. The GN and a ‘72 GS. Wanted to keep the GS but someone wanted it more than I did when I offered it out there to the Buick crowd. Then my buddy passed and left me his. That was a shock but I’m hoping to buy his GS from his daughter if she will ever sell it. Thanks for watching too. 👍😊

@@buickdude69 I'm actually a MOPAR guy that loves Buicks. I had a 1972 GS Stage 1 when I was 18.(that was in 1987) It was scattered but complete. I didn't have the $$$ to build it, so I sold out. One of my biggest regrets.

@@wedgehead63 I'm a Buick guy that loves MOPAR! 😀 Ford too.! Not a chevy or GM guy for sure. It seems now a days a LOT of turbo Buick owners are chevy guys that like these too. I try to separate myself from them folks. I've discovered most true Buick guys like Mopar or Ford too. Us Buick guys can't walk into a new car dealer and buy a Buick anymore as they don't exist, other than name only slapped on a crapillac/chebby 1/2 breed since GM literally seized Buick Motor Corporation and fired or people quit @ BMC back early 2,000s.

@@buickdude69 AMEN. It looks like Mother Mopar is going in to the electric business. SAD!!

@@wedgehead63 yes it is. Ford is keeping the combustion engine around and offering ev's but not forcing them on people!

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Yes I know, but they are out there. There is also the option of a scan master that mounts in the vehicle and reads all the data from the computer including codes. Thanks for watching.

Thanks, I’ve noticed that! The whole car has got to be gone through. All because my friend abandoned it outside. If he’d left it indoors in his basement or in town in the warehouse beside his GS, it’d be a total different ballgame.

More than likely I will. Thanks for watching .

Lol, I appreciate your compassion! I’m not a GN guy, a Gbody guy, or a GM/Generic Meatheads guy. I’m a “Buick” guy. That means all Buicks that are Buick powered or anything else that has a Buick engine under the hood. Though I prefer the Buick 350 and 455, I like the turbo cars though I wished I’d got a T-Type back in the day new. Ask any Buick guy that knows me and they’d tell you I’ve said for years ‘if anything happens to that car (my GN) I’ll paint it red or blue, ‘chrome the bumpers, 86 grill in it, T-Type wheels and have me a counterfeit. Out of respect for my friend and Buick brother that owned the car new, I’ll go back with the original Buick color. On a side note, the friend I mentioned at the end of the video that has a Porsche Guard red T-Type? It’s a ‘86 Designer Series he bought brand new as well. Dropped it off a cliff in Knoxville TN about a year old. Insurance company totaled it. He bought back and went back red with it. Been red ever since. Beautiful car! I’ll have a video of it in the next few months. Thanks for watching 👍😎

It was also available in the T-Type and Turbo-T which came in multi colors, and are my favs over these. I jumped on the black ones/GN back in the day but wish I would have held out for a blue one. A friend of mine bought a GN brand new in '87, drove it straight from the dealer to the body shop and had it painted blue back in the day. True story. Picked it up from paint, took it to a Michelin tire store and had new tires put on it. Those Goodyear tires he still has today. Just sold the car a few years ago. 😀

Buickdude69 Any idea what’s happen with Bill Ragland over the years ?

@@ruqwknf27 He passed away 2-3 years ago.😮‍💨I last visited him in '19. I tried to call him in November when I was going through the motions with Randys GN and running down issues that ended up being ecm. When I got a immediate message that the number was disconnected I got a bad feeling and searched his name Shelbyville TN obits and there it was. So sad.

@buickdude69 He built the motor in a GN I had In the mid 90’s. He told me “you’ll never go fast without a stage 2 motor and a T400”. Car went 10:20’s. He was one of a kind. He was already at the nationals with a friend of his . Same guy every time. Who had a real low mi GN. Sad sad sad.

If I go for any high hp it will be with a Buick 455 with a girdle that I already have and should handle 1500hp fine, cause it will be that minimum at the back tires. I'm hoping to buy my friends GS (the guy that owned this GN) if his daughter will "ever" sell it to me.

It’s low, but that’s the least of my worries at the moment. I’ve stopped the bleeding,/it’s indoors permanently now. I’ve cleaned it up for the moment much as possible but still gotta restore it. The brakes along with everything else will get addressed in time. It hasn’t been started since mid November. Thanks for watching 😊👍

Thanks for the offer. I'm really not in that frame of mind at the moment. Focused on business and making money, not spending it. :)

Thanks for the idea and for watching.

@@buickdude69 Harley (stole) my paint scheme & used it on one of their 1976 sport models. On my Honda 500-4, flat black with 2 coats clear. Look & look you could not see the paints surface. 2 thin straight pinstripes on the side yellow & red-ish orange flowing to the tanks rear. Crossed over the 2 colors then with wide bands tween my legs. Return on the other side. Simple & schweet. Yes, you have a fine channel here. Just found it 1 hr ago. Subscribed. OH, also Honda stole my frame re-mod. Put it on their 1976 500 single Enduro.

Thanks for watching old friend 👍. I most likely will.

I’ve thought of that, being a 32k car. 😎

Lol the words I live by is “anything but black or white “cause I hate those 2 colors more than anything on a vehicle, including golf carts. If i ever do anything with this car I will most likely go back black unfortunately 😞

I don’t like to leave windows down. Keeps dust and dirt out among other reasons to leave them up. 😊

I understand exactly what you are saying 👍. To answer your question about my GN, those that know me know that I have said for close to 30 years that if anything ever happened to the car (accident, etc) the color would get changed to red or blue (counterfeit T-Type) and wouldn’t be an original Buick shade of blue or red either. Chrome the bumpers and T-Type wheels to finish it off. Being this is my friends car at this point , and from all the responses I’ll most likely leave it factory color. Then, that leaves the question, put it back stock or leave it the way he had it when he left? Clean and mint though like it was before he abandoned it in his backyard. That’s now my dilemma. Thank you for watching.